Adelle M. Banks

Women in Black Baptist circles knew that it was only a matter of time before one of their own was named to lead a major church organization.

Timothy Stewart, the first international president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, has died, his denomination announced.

Stan Mc­Kenzie, the husband of Afri­can Methodist Epis­copal Church bishop Vashti Mur­phy Mc­Ken­zie, died on July 21 in Dal­las after a brief illness. He was 76.

More than 15,000 Southern Baptist Convention leaders and pastors gathered in Nashville, Tennessee, June 15–16 for the first annual meeting of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination since the ...

There are usually lots of cheers and applause at university commencements.

On the first Wednesday in May, as the centennial of the Tulsa massacre ap­proached, Robert R. A. Turner stood outside Tulsa City Hall with his megaphone, as he does every week.

Veteran broadcast journalist Bob Abernethy, who founded the PBS program Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly, has died at the age of 93.

A 66-year-old Jehovah’s Witness in Russia has re­ceived a six-year sentence for practicing his faith, a particularly harsh penalty in a country where rape is punishable with a three- to six-year pr...

On the last Sunday of October, Karl Anderson helped arrange a Souls to the Polls event on a blocked-off street in downtown Gainesville, Florida, to encourage people to vote early.

Leaders of multiracial church coalitions in three southern cities have confessed to being too “comfortable” and have committed anew to “work for justice to right past wrongs” and seek racial unity....

J. Delano Ellis II, a Black church official who started Pentecostal organizations and emphasized ecumenism, died on September 19 following a re­cent hospitalization. He was 75.

Anthea Butler, professor of religious studies and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania, said thousands of faculty supported a “scholar strike” for two days in September, during which ...

Gil Caldwell, a civil rights activist who later in life stood up for gay rights in the United Methodist Church, died Septem­ber 4 at the age of 86.

C.T. Vivian, a minister and advocate for civil rights who worked with Martin Luther King Jr., died July 17 in Atlanta.

John Lewis, the longtime civil rights activist, congressman, and ordained Baptist minister who preached about getting in “good trouble,” died July 17 at the age of 80.

Rolland Slade, senior pastor of Meridian Baptist Church in El Cajon, California, has been elected as the first African American chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Execu­tive Committee, t...

Since the beginning of 2019, Southern Baptist Convention president J. D....

Following the release of a video months after the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a black jogger in Georgia, religious leaders have raised their voices to ask questions about how and why he died.

For years, the majority of US Protestant pastors surveyed about global warming questioned whether it was real and whether it was caused by humans.

For weeks, churches have been rushing to use the internet in new ways, live streaming and video conferencing to keep the faithful together for weekend worship.